As this was the only championship for college hockey at the time, the victor served as the de facto National Champion.
[1] Brown, Columbia, University of Pennsylvania,[2] and Yale agreed to form the league after some of their intercollegiate games had already been played.
The IHA expanded to include other future Ivy League schools like Harvard and Princeton,[3] then welcomed Dartmouth after Brown suspended its program in 1906.
At the same meeting where Dartmouth was admitted, the committee also banned freshmen from participating on varsity teams.
In 1911, restrictions imposed by Harvard faculty forced the college to resign from the league.